EUROPEAN IDENTITY THROUGH CULTURE
EUROPEAN IDENTITY THROUGH CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: Confronted with the disenchantment of the world caused by post-modernity, it is difficult to bring backinto discussion a well-defined identity, based on specific, often cultural, elements. European identity is acomplex notion defined both by characteristics common to the cultures of various ethnicities and peoplein the European geographical area, as well as by their specific characteristics. In this article we will studythe relationship between identity and culture in relation to the European construction as an institutionalproject to see how the concept of Europe, its cultural sources and the EU political project can becombined. European culture (as well as its bases of identity) does not only have an evolution composed ofall local, national and sub-national cultures, but it also consists of all exchanges between the national andlocal cultures that have come together for centuries. In this sense, Europeans are “heirs” of the plural andunitary history of their continent, but what role does this feature have, impregnated with pluralism andunity, in an identity perspective? In order to answer this question, we will focus on the links betweenculture and the sphere of identity, seeking, on the one hand, to know the elements that, in a scientific way,bring together or divide these two key concepts, and, on the other hand, studying the way in whichplurality acts within the identity.

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